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Out with the old and in with the new! Du Dubbo has made sure the second decade of the 21st century went out with a bang, while the skies above the city lit up to usher in the New Year. Held by the Dubbo Show Society and generously sponsored by Gail, Roger and the Fletcher family to help bring the community together, the evening wasn’t just about fireworks – as spectacular as they were. KEEP READING >> PAGE 16
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STOP IT OR COP IT By JOHN RYAN
WITH drivers from around Dubbo and Wellington travelling the state’s highways over the holiday season, please keep a keen eye out and drive defensively because not everyone is taking care on our roads. Police have flagged plenty of incidents where drivers have thrown caution to the wind over recent weeks. Operation Safe Arrival began on Friday, December 20, and ran until 11.59pm on New Year’s Day and Traffic and Highway Patrol Commander, Assistant Commissioner Michael Corboy, said he
hopes to see an improvement in driver behaviour into 2020. “We have unlicensed and disqualified drivers, unsupervised learner drivers and drug and alcohol-affected motorists getting behind the wheel and putting lives in danger,” Assistant Commissioner Corboy said. “Officers are also seeing people take risks with young children in the car, including not having infants properly restrained, and people driving at dangerous speeds, well over the limit. “We want everyone to enjoy this time of year so please, think before you drive and always have safety top of mind when you are
operating any vehicle,” he said. A 50-year-old man has been charged for allegedly failing to stop after crashing his truck into four parked cars in Sydney’s south on December 29. To make matters worse, the asbestos he was carrying in his three-tonne tipper spilled onto the road as a result of the multiple collisions. He was eventually pulled over and returned a breath analysis reading of 0.308 – six times the legal limit. This is why defensive driving is so important. Imagine having to share the roads with people like this.
Closer to home and a young man was killed near Parkes on Christmas Day when his car, travelling east along Renshaw-McGirr Way left the roadway, crashed into a tree and caught fire. The driver has yet to be formally identified but is believed to be an 18-year-old. Still in Parkes, on Christmas Day, police stopped a Nissan Skyline on the Newell Highway for a random breath test and the driver was unable to produce a NSW driver licence. Officers checked his details and discovered the 32-year-old Wagga Wagga man’s licence had been suspended until September 2046
– that’s another 16 odd years he’s not meant to be driving on our roads. On December 29 a 34-year-old female driver was pulled over for an RBT on Pittwater Road, Narrabeen, and returned a positive result, later testing for a reading of 0.171, more than three times the legal limit. Police also observed a seven-year-old boy in the rear passenger seat. The woman’s licence was confiscated. On the same day, police stopped a 39-year-old male driver in Moree who allegedly had four children unrestrained in the vehicle.
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